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In addition to helping you keep in touch with your clients via telephone, text and email, your iPhone is also a handy tool for snapping pictures of products or ideas. After you take the pictures, you can import them into iPhoto, the bundled photo organization program from Apple. Normally, iPhoto launches automatically when you plug your iPhone into the Mac. If plugging in your iPhone does not open iPhoto, you can set it up to do so with another bundled application, Image Capture.

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Plug your iPhone into your Mac's USB port.

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Open a Finder window.

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Select "Applications" and "Image Capture" to open the Image Capture utility.

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Select your iPhone from the Devices list.

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Select "iPhoto" from the "Connecting this iPhone opens" drop-down list.

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Close the Image Capture utility. The next time you plug in your iPhone, iPhoto will open automatically.

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